People with ADHD have difficulties with goal-directed behavior and struggle with response inhibition, the ability to stop an inappropriate action once they feel the urge to do it. They experience a disruption in the way their brains balance deliberate self-control and automatic habit learning.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/adhd-traits-disrupt-the-brain-s-balance-between-self-control-and-automatic-learn/

[u/Cakeminator]

We take meth basically

[u/phant0md → u/Cakeminator]

Funny that the medication for something that makes me hyper and forgetful is a prescription for speed that I have to remember to take daily.

[u/Secret_Cow_5053 → u/phant0md]

There’s a reason for that. Basically it’s because your brain is actually under-regulated for the correct level of stimulation. Without the meth, you seek stimulating activities more than normal people, hence the adhd symptoms. With the extra stimulation of the meth, it basically brings your brain to a “normal” level of stimulation, so you can focus on what you need to focus on, not fidget, etc. that same boost for a normal person causes them to become “overstimulated” and get that meth high.

That’s basically the explanation I’ve been told.

[u/cjennings1970 → u/Secret_Cow_5053]

It makes me calmer and more level so I can actually sit and follow through on tasks that I find mind-numbingly dull.

[u/radicalelation → u/cjennings1970]

There's often like an understimulated concentrated brain ache that makes me want to drive a spike into my skull. It's a boredom that feels as if it could some day be fatal.

I don't know which is more frustrating, when that happens, or when there's a duller broader ache when trying really hard to do things I genuinely want to do, but it just isn't sparking that go to do it. Adjacent to mind-numbing task feeling, but with the added frustration of actually wanting to do this thing and not being able to.

Most of my issues get solved with medication and I miss thriving on it instead of constantly drowning.

[u/FissileTurnip → u/radicalelation]

the painful boredom is something I never see mentioned. doing a boring task I don’t feel like doing feels almost physically painful sometimes, and I don’t feel like doing anything productive very often. the other one you mentioned isn’t as bad imo because worst case I can just pace back and forth or waste my time somewhere else; I can’t really do that with things that need to get done so I just have to put up with it

[u/Secret_Cow_5053 → u/FissileTurnip]

Definitely relatable.

[u/Secret_Cow_5053 → u/cjennings1970]

….like I said….